RFE: chpasswd in cloud-init should support hashed passwords

Bug #1570325 reported by Tore
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
cloud-init
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned
cloud-init (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned
Xenial
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned
Yakkety
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

=== Begin SRU Template ===
[Impact]
The only way to assign a hashed password to a user is to use passwd within a
users entry like this:
 users:
   - name: root
     passwd: $6$Cl....Hy$IEJciQZLxQLzkST......g.bzqf3lUl.

But, if that user is already present on the system, cloud-init would skip
setting the password. The change was to add support for providing
encrypted passwords to 'chpasswd' as:

 chpasswd:
   list: |
     user:$5$eriogqzq$Dg7PxHsKGzziuEGkZgkLvacjuEFeljJ.rLf.hZqKQLA

[Test Case]
There is an integration test in cloud-init that runs though this code.
To run that:

$ git clone https://git.launchpad.net/cloud-init
$ cd cloud-init

# download the appropriate deb for cloud-init from -proposed
$ rel=xenial
$ pver=$(rmadison --url=ubuntu --suite=$rel-proposed cloud-init | awk '{print $3}')
$ fname="cloud-init_${pver}_all.deb"
$ wget "http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cloud-init/$fname"
$ ln -sf $fname cloud-init_all.$rel.deb
$ tox -e citest -- run -v -n $rel --deb=cloud-init_all.$rel.deb \
   -t tests/cloud_tests/testcases/modules/set_password_list_string.py \
   -t tests/cloud_tests/testcases/modules/set_password_list.py
That will install the new cloud-init into a container and run
with user data to excercise this new feature.

[Regression Potential]
Some user passwords provided via chpasswd and starting with '$'
may be interpreted as hashed passwords.
Specifically, those matching: r'\$[1,2a,2y,5,6](\$.+){2}'

In english, that regex is:
  - starts with a '$'
  - followed by '1', '2a', '2y', '5', '6'
  - followed by a $
  - followed by 1 or more characters
  - followed by another $
  - followed by 1 or more characters

So a total of 3 '$' and starting with one of those specific 3 or 4
character strings. That could definitely happen, but it is low odds, and also fairly low risk. If a user hits this, they'd be unable to reach a new instance.

[Other Info]
Upstream commit:
 https://git.launchpad.net/cloud-init/commit/?id=21632972df034

=== End SRU Template ===

The only way to assign a hashed password to a user is to use passwd within a users entry like this:
users:
   - name: root
     passwd: $6$Cl....Hy$IEJciQZLxQLzkST......g.bzqf3lUl.

But, if that user is already present on the system, cloud-init will skip setting the password:
journal: [CLOUDINIT] __init__.py[INFO]: User root already exists, skipping.

You can change password with chpasswd, but that only supports clear-text password.

Requesting that chpasswd get support for setting a hashed password to users.

Related branches

Tore (tlonoy)
summary: - RFE: chpasswd in cloud-init should
+ RFE: chpasswd in cloud-init should support hashed passwords
Scott Moser (smoser)
Changed in cloud-init:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Scott Moser (smoser)
Changed in cloud-init (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in cloud-init (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in cloud-init (Ubuntu Yakkety):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in cloud-init (Ubuntu Xenial):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in cloud-init (Ubuntu Yakkety):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Scott Moser (smoser)
description: updated
description: updated
Scott Moser (smoser)
description: updated
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Tore, or anyone else affected,

Accepted cloud-init into yakkety-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/0.7.9-90-g61eb03fe-0ubuntu1~16.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in cloud-init (Ubuntu Yakkety):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Hello Tore, or anyone else affected,

Accepted cloud-init into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/0.7.9-90-g61eb03fe-0ubuntu1~16.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in cloud-init (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote :

Tests passed for xenial according to the instructions (see attached output).

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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote :

Tests passed for yakkety according to the instructions (see attached output).

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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote :

Also launched a yakkety lxd with the attached user-data file, and it correctly changed the user's password to the provided hash.

lxc launch b03fe-yakkety-proposed y1-proposed "--config=user.user-data=$(cat cloud-init.yaml)"

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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote :

Also launched a xenial lxd container with the same user-data file as in the previous comment and it correctly changed the "tom" user's password to the provided hash.

lxc launch b03fe-xenial-proposed x1-proposed "--config=user.user-data=$(cat cloud-init.yaml)"

tags: added: verification-done-xenial verification-done-yakkety
removed: verification-needed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package cloud-init - 0.7.9-90-g61eb03fe-0ubuntu1~16.10.1

---------------
cloud-init (0.7.9-90-g61eb03fe-0ubuntu1~16.10.1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * debian/cloud-init.templates: add Bigstep to list of sources. (LP: #1676460)
  * New upstream snapshot.
    - OpenStack: add 'dvs' to the list of physical link types. (LP: #1674946)
    - Fix bug that resulted in an attempt to rename bonds or vlans.
      (LP: #1669860)
    - tests: update OpenNebula and Digital Ocean to not rely on host
      interfaces.
    - net: in netplan renderer delete known image-builtin content.
      (LP: #1675576)
    - doc: correct grammar in capabilities.rst [David Tagatac]
    - ds-identify: fix detecting of maas datasource. (LP: #1677710)
    - netplan: remove debugging prints, add debug logging [Ryan Harper]
    - ds-identify: do not write None twice to datasource_list.
    - support resizing partition and rootfs on system booted without
      initramfs. [Steve Langasek] (LP: #1677376)
    - apt_configure: run only when needed. (LP: #1675185)
    - OpenStack: identify OpenStack by product 'OpenStack Compute'.
      (LP: #1675349)
    - GCE: Search GCE in ds-identify, consider serial number in check.
      (LP: #1674861)
    - Add support for setting hashed passwords [Tore S. Lonoy] (LP: #1570325)
    - Fix filesystem creation when using "partition: auto"
      [Jonathan Ballet] (LP: #1634678)
    - ConfigDrive: support reading config drive data from /config-drive.
      (LP: #1673411)
    - ds-identify: fix detection of Bigstep datasource. (LP: #1674766)
    - test: add running of pylint [Joshua Powers]
    - ds-identify: fix bug where filename expansion was left on.
    - advertise network config v2 support (NETWORK_CONFIG_V2) in features.
    - Bigstep: fix bug when executing in python3. [root]
    - Fix unit test when running in a system deployed with cloud-init.
    - Bounce network interface for Azure when using the built-in path.
      [Brent Baude] (LP: #1674685)
    - cloudinit.net: add network config v2 parsing and rendering [Ryan Harper]
    - net: Fix incorrect call to isfile [Joshua Powers] (LP: #1674317)
    - net: add renderers for automatically selecting the renderer.
    - doc: fix config drive doc with regard to unpartitioned disks.
      (LP: #1673818)
    - test: Adding integratiron test for password as list [Joshua Powers]
    - render_network_state: switch arguments around, do not require target
    - support 'loopback' as a device type.
    - Integration Testing: improve testcase subclassing [Wesley Wiedenmeier]
    - gitignore: adding doc/rtd_html [Joshua Powers]
    - doc: add instructions for running integration tests via tox.
      [Joshua Powers]
    - test: avoid differences in 'date' output due to daylight savings.
    - Fix chef config module in omnibus install. [Jeremy Melvin] (LP: #1583837)
    - Add feature flags to cloudinit.version. [Wesley Wiedenmeier]
    - tox: add a citest environment
    - Support chpasswd/list being a list in addition to a string.
      [Sergio Lystopad] (LP: #1665694)
    - doc: Fix configuration example for cc_set_passwords module.
      [Sergio Lystopad] (LP: #1665773)
    - ...

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Changed in cloud-init (Ubuntu Yakkety):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for cloud-init has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package cloud-init - 0.7.9-90-g61eb03fe-0ubuntu1~16.04.1

---------------
cloud-init (0.7.9-90-g61eb03fe-0ubuntu1~16.04.1) xenial-proposed; urgency=medium

  * debian/cloud-init.templates: add Bigstep to list of sources. (LP: #1676460)
  * New upstream snapshot.
    - OpenStack: add 'dvs' to the list of physical link types. (LP: #1674946)
    - Fix bug that resulted in an attempt to rename bonds or vlans.
      (LP: #1669860)
    - tests: update OpenNebula and Digital Ocean to not rely on host
      interfaces.
    - net: in netplan renderer delete known image-builtin content.
      (LP: #1675576)
    - doc: correct grammar in capabilities.rst [David Tagatac]
    - ds-identify: fix detecting of maas datasource. (LP: #1677710)
    - netplan: remove debugging prints, add debug logging [Ryan Harper]
    - ds-identify: do not write None twice to datasource_list.
    - support resizing partition and rootfs on system booted without
      initramfs. [Steve Langasek] (LP: #1677376)
    - apt_configure: run only when needed. (LP: #1675185)
    - OpenStack: identify OpenStack by product 'OpenStack Compute'.
      (LP: #1675349)
    - GCE: Search GCE in ds-identify, consider serial number in check.
      (LP: #1674861)
    - Add support for setting hashed passwords [Tore S. Lonoy] (LP: #1570325)
    - Fix filesystem creation when using "partition: auto"
      [Jonathan Ballet] (LP: #1634678)
    - ConfigDrive: support reading config drive data from /config-drive.
      (LP: #1673411)
    - ds-identify: fix detection of Bigstep datasource. (LP: #1674766)
    - test: add running of pylint [Joshua Powers]
    - ds-identify: fix bug where filename expansion was left on.
    - advertise network config v2 support (NETWORK_CONFIG_V2) in features.
    - Bigstep: fix bug when executing in python3. [root]
    - Fix unit test when running in a system deployed with cloud-init.
    - Bounce network interface for Azure when using the built-in path.
      [Brent Baude] (LP: #1674685)
    - cloudinit.net: add network config v2 parsing and rendering [Ryan Harper]
    - net: Fix incorrect call to isfile [Joshua Powers] (LP: #1674317)
    - net: add renderers for automatically selecting the renderer.
    - doc: fix config drive doc with regard to unpartitioned disks.
      (LP: #1673818)
    - test: Adding integratiron test for password as list [Joshua Powers]
    - render_network_state: switch arguments around, do not require target
    - support 'loopback' as a device type.
    - Integration Testing: improve testcase subclassing [Wesley Wiedenmeier]
    - gitignore: adding doc/rtd_html [Joshua Powers]
    - doc: add instructions for running integration tests via tox.
      [Joshua Powers]
    - test: avoid differences in 'date' output due to daylight savings.
    - Fix chef config module in omnibus install. [Jeremy Melvin] (LP: #1583837)
    - Add feature flags to cloudinit.version. [Wesley Wiedenmeier]
    - tox: add a citest environment
    - Support chpasswd/list being a list in addition to a string.
      [Sergio Lystopad] (LP: #1665694)
    - doc: Fix configuration example for cc_set_passwords module.
      [Sergio Lystopad] (LP: #1665773...

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Changed in cloud-init (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Scott Moser (smoser)
Changed in cloud-init:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Fixed in Cloud-init 17.1

This bug is believed to be fixed in cloud-init in 17.1. If this is still a problem for you, please make a comment and set the state back to New

Thank you.

Changed in cloud-init:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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